00:00There is a whole new, if you would, political line opening up in Iran.
00:04Are you for war or are you against war?
00:06As opposed to are you for the regime or are you against the regime?
00:10And then are you for protecting Iran or are you willing to risk the destruction of Iran?
00:15And this is complicating the picture very much so.
00:19And increasingly what we are seeing that even anti-regime Iranians are showing up
00:24in these rallies to basically saying at this moment, at this particular moment,
00:29is not the time to have our internal fight over politics, but to actually support the country.
00:35And so if the president was looking for a quick political uprising in Iran,
00:41it's not happening and it won't happen.
00:43It will not happen until the dust of this war settles.
00:46So for now, the Iranian public is not a factor in this war.
00:50And this was something that both Israel and the United States had been counting on,
00:54that the war would pave the way for a popular uprising.
00:59The dust of this war settles.
01:02How long do you think that is going to take?
01:07I think longer than President Trump is hoping for.
01:12He thinks that he can just turn the switch off.
01:16And it's not that simple because unless he's willing to offer Iranians something big
01:21and is willing to negotiate over some fundamental terms that I mentioned to you,
01:29I don't think the Iranians are ready right now.
01:31So I know that my independence is going to go.
01:31I'm going to go.
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